Validation
Our active entity object will also give you access to our validation engine (cbValidation) by giving your ORM entities the following functions:
/**
* Validate the ActiveEntity with the coded constraints -> this.constraints, or passed in shared or implicit constraints
* The entity must have been populated with data before the validation
*
* @fields One or more fields to validate on, by default it validates all fields in the constraints. This can be a simple list or an array.
* @constraints An optional shared constraints name or an actual structure of constraints to validate on.
* @locale An optional locale to use for i18n messages
* @excludeFields An optional list of fields to exclude from the validation.
*/
boolean function isValid(
string fields="*",
any constraints="",
string locale="",
string excludeFields=""
){
/**
* Get the validation results object. This will be an empty validation object if isValid() has not being called yet.
*/
cbvalidation.models.result.IValidationResult function getValidationResults(){
This makes it really easy for you to validate your ORM entities in two easy steps:
1) Add your validation constraints to the entity
2) Call the validation methods
models/User.cfc
component persistent="true" extends="cborm.models.ActiveEntity"{
// Properties
property name="firstName";
property name="lastName";
property name="email";
property name="username";
property name="password";
// Validation Constraints
this.constraints = {
"firstName" = {required=true},
"lastName" = {required=true},
"email" = {required=true,type="email"},
"username" = {required=true, size="5..10"},
"password" = {required=true, size="5..10"}
};
}
Now let's check out the handlers to see how to validate the entity via the
isValid() function:handlers/users.cfc
component{
property name="messagebox" inject="[email protected]";
function index(event,rc,prc){
prc.users = getInstance( "User" ).list( sortOrder="lastName asc" );
event.setView( "users/list" );
}
function save(event,rc,prc){
event.paramValue( "id", -1 );
var oUser = getInstance( "User" )
.getOrFail( rc.id )
.populate( rc )
if( oUser.isValid() {
oUser.save();
flash.put( "notice", "User Saved!" );
relocate( "users.index" );
}
else{
messagebox.error( messageArray=oUser.getValidationResults().getAllErrors() );
editor( event, rc, prc );
}
}
function editor(event,rc,prc){
event.paramValue( "id", -1 );
prc.user = getInstance( "User" ).getOrFail( rc.id );
event.setView( "users/editor" );
}
function delete(event,rc,prc){
event.paramValue( "id", -1 );
getInstance( "User" )
.deleteById( rc.id );
flash.put( "notice", "User Removed!" );
relocate( "users.index" );
}
}
Please remember that the
isValid() function has several arguments you can use to fine tune the validation:- fields
- constraints
- locale
- excludeFields
Here are the most common methods for retreving the errors from the Result object via the
getValidationResults() method:getResultMetadata()getFieldErrors( [field] )getAllErrors( [field] )getAllErrorsAsJSON( [field] )getAllErrorsAsStruct( [field] )getErrorCount( [field] )hasErrors( [field] )getErrors()
The API Docs in the module (once installed) will give you the latest information about these methods and arguments.
We have also integrated a
UniqueValidator from the validation module into our ORM module. It is mapped into WireBox as [email protected] so you can use it in your model constraints like so:{ username : { validator : "[email protected]", required : true } }
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